When Riot Cops Are Not Enough : : The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland / / Mike King.

In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 13 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland
  • 2. From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control, and the Governmentality of Protest
  • 3. The Oakland Commune, Police Violence, and Political Opportunity
  • 4. Legitimating Repression through Depoliticizing It: Federal Coordination, "Health and Safety," and the November 2011 Occupy Evictions
  • 5. Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang Techniques and the Oakland Police Department's State of Exception
  • 6. The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of Occupy Oakland's Move-In Day
  • 7. Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds That Never Grew
  • 8. Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index